This bibliography presents selected articles, books, electronic documents, and other sources that are useful in understanding scholarly electronic publishing efforts on the Internet and other networks.

Scholarly electronic publishing bibliography

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This bibliography lists citations of English-language articles, books and other printed and electronic sources that are useful in understanding scholarly electronic publishing efforts on the Internet. Most sources have been published from 1990 through 2007; however, a limited number of key sources published prior to 1990 are also included.

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Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography: 2008 Annual Edition

Image database (IDB) systems are at present often designed to test technology and the efficacy of retrieval algorithms, rather than being oriented towards delivering functionality to users. Research is necessary to design interfaces geared towards human usage of images. The starting point of this research needs to be consideration at a fundamental, user-centred level of how people perceive and interpret images. This article considers literature from many disciplines to describe a taxonomy of image content, from direct sensory elements to high-level abstractions. The nine categories derived will later be validated and used to direct the design of visual query interfaces for IDB systems.

A Taxonomy of the Image: On the Classification of Content for Image Retrieval:

The management of library “pick‐up books” – a phrase that refers to books pulled off the shelves by readers, discarded in the library after use, and picked up by library assistants for reshelving – is an issue for many collection managers. This research attempts to use geographic information system (GIS) software as a tool to monitor the use of such books so that their distributions by book shelf‐ranges can be displayed visually. With GIS, library floor layouts are drawn as maps. This research produces some explanations of the habits of library patrons browsing shelved materials, and makes suggestions to librarians on the expansion of library collections and the rearrangement potential for library space.

GIS in the management of library pick‐up books

Project Alexandria, one of six National Science Foundation (NSF) digital library initiatives (DLI), has as its objective online access to spatial data in a distributed environment, with search options by areas of interest on a base map or by text, as the user prefers. The project, which is based at the University of California, Santa Barbara, has partners and participating agencies and libraries throughout the United States. The development of a rapid prototype system began in October 1994 and was completed by the end of February 1995. The testbed system will be operational by late 1997. Map libraries have a reasonably lengthy history of map cataloging; the first map catalog at Harvard University is dated 1831 (Merrett 1976, 3). Extensive employment of map cataloging dates from after World War II, and the practice became especially common with the availability of the USMARC Map format on OCLC. Online shared cataloging brought substantial benefits to map libraries almost immediately by creating and broadening access to cartographic information. Nonetheless, for as long as map cataloging has gone on, it has had as its constant counterpart frustrations known only to the map librarian who, for instance, is asked questions at the map-sheet or air-photo-frame level, but whose collection is cataloged at the map series or flight level (this assumes that the map librarian has cataloging access to remote-sensing imagery in the first place). Over the past two decades air photos have, for several reasons, seldom been cataloged in U.S. map libraries. Air photos held by any given library have tended to be local area photos for which no shared catalog record exists. Cataloging of this material most often requires time-consuming original cataloging, which frequently means that such items will be cataloged last, only after records that derive from shared cataloging or that will be used most heavily in a shared-cataloging environment have been cataloged. Added to the burden of the labor-intensive task of original cataloging is the challenge of describing a graphic object (such as a map) using only text. Even twenty years ago, exasperated rare-map catalogers, buried in USMARC note fields (5XX), were heard to mutter that the best idea was to photograph the map, put the photo in an aperture card with author/title/date/publishing information if any, and be done with it. The Beginnings of Project Alexandria Larry Carver, head of the Map and Imagery Laboratory (MIL) at the University of California, Santa Barbara's (UCSB) Davidson Library, noticed these problems in the late 1960s when he began working with the library's collection (all three map cases and two hundred maps of it). For many years, Carver's focus was developing the collection in the areas of greatest interest to the faculty--remote-sensing imagery and digital data; today, the collection encompasses 5.1 million items. In the mid-1980s, Carver began work on a grant proposal to make spatial data accessible at the sheet/frame level, using a mapsearch interface. The Research Libraries Group (RLG), of which UCSB is a member, became involved in Carver's project and in 1987 the Keck Foundation awarded RLG a grant to produce a design document for such a system (Bloch 1988; RLG 1989). For a variety of reasons, there was no further progress on the matter for several years. ESRI and NSF In the early summer of 1993, Carver met with Jack Dangermond, of the Environmental Research System Institute (ESRI), concerning the possibility of using geographic information systems (GIS), and specifically ESRI's ArcView and Arc/Info GIS softwares, as a method to access spatial data. In one sense, the idea under consideration turned GIS inside-out in that it made use of the attributes for the cataloging fields and the graphic representation for the browse file of the item or (space allowing) the actual spatial data in digital form. At their meeting, an agreement was reached between Carver and Dangermond whereby ESRI would provide software and staff time to work with MIL staff in setting up a prototype. …

Larry Carver

Papers

Accessing Spatial Data Online: Project Alexandria